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Belgium Steps Further into Immunotherapies – Highlighting Open … – Applied Clinical Trials Online (press release) (registration) (blog)

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2017-05-15 NEWS

Belgium Steps Further into Immunotherapies – Highlighting Open …
Applied Clinical Trials Online (press release) (registration) (blog)
The Belgian health ministry has decreed that Belgian lung-cancer patients can receive and be reimbursed for immunotherapy treatments.

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2017-05-15 NEWS

Rare Disease Report

Hunter Syndrome – The Documentary Series
Rare Disease Report
The goal of the series is to raise awareness of Hunter syndrome, as well as the need for a gene therapy for the lysosomal storage disorder. In Hunter syndrome, patients are missing the iduronate sulfatase enzyme, resulting in an accumulation of

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Cut Out the Hype: Gene Editing With CRISPR and the Truth about Superhuman ‘Designer Babies’
WhatIsEpigenetics.com (blog)
He even created an alternative genome engineering method called CRISPRCpf1, which may improve the tool’s precision and power. Recently, the two groups of researchers entered a fiery battle for a CRISPR patent and the scientific community called for a …

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Epilepsy News Today

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Potential in Treating Medication-resistant Epilepsy Patients
Epilepsy News Today
Stem cell therapy consists of using stem cells (immature cells that can become any other cell type in the body) to replace faulty cells and treat patients with a given disease. Many approaches include using the patient’s own stem cells (autologous stem

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2017-05-15 NEWS

Epilepsy News Today

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Potential in Treating Medication-resistant Epilepsy Patients
Epilepsy News Today
Stem cell therapy consists of using stem cells (immature cells that can become any other cell type in the body) to replace faulty cells and treat patients with a given disease. Many approaches include using the patient’s own stem cells (autologous stem

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2017-05-15 NEWS

Scientists light the way for immune system to attack cancer
Science Daily
Several different types of immunotherapy exist or are in development, including pills called “checkpoint inhibitors” and CAR T-cell therapy that involves removing a patient’s own immune cells and altering them genetically to seek and destroy cancer cells.

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2017-05-15 NEWS

Large bank of human stem cell lines made in Europe
BioNews
One of the world’s largest sets of human stem cell lines from healthy people was unveiled last week. The 711 induced pluripotent stem cell(iPSC) lines derived from 301 healthy volunteers were released by a large European consortium in the journal Nature.